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Catalogue Miro Exhibition 2012 GILDEN’S ARTS presents Gilden’s Arts Gallery Miró Exhibition 2012 3 4 Joan Miró was born in Barcelona in 1893. The city would become a symbol and a great inspiration for the master. As a matter of fact Miró would first be recognised as a Catalan painter before being a Spanish one. Miró was, the critic Robert Hughes wrote in his book Barcelona (1992),”the greatest art- ist Catalunya had produced since the 12th century. And not only that, Hughes contended that he was emblematic of the Catalan mentality, a combination of the two qualities known as seny (rationality) and rauxa (wildness).” After studying fine arts in Barcelona, Miró travelled to Paris in 1920. Thanks to Picasso’s help, Miró’s tiny studio at rue Blomet received regular visits from his new Surrealist friends among them the poet Paul Éluard. It was in Paris that Miró started to explore printmaking as a technique to express his cre- ativity. Miró’s relationship to printmaking was tentative at first. For example, Daphnis and Chloé (see on page 6) was realised for the periodical Minotaure. It was only after he met the painter Louis Marcoussis, who maintained a print shop in his studio, which Miró’s natural inclinations toward new tools and materials blossomed. In the 1940’s, Miró continued his exploration of intaglio techniques at Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 workshop in New York. Soon after, he began his active involvement in lithography supported by the Parisian dealer Aimé Mae- ght. He realised numerous individual prints, as well as affiches (see page 23), invitations, catalogue covers, and even holiday cards. He also illustrated books (see page 38), a format he had attempted earlier in his career. For half century he used virtually every technique of the printer’s art. In 1948–49 Miró made frequent visits to Paris to work on printing techniques at the Mourlot Studios and the Atelier Lacourière. He developed a close relationship with Fernand Mourlot and that resulted in the publication of over one thousand different lithographic editions at the end of his life. 5 This etching, realised in 1933 for the periodical Le Mino- taure, is inspired by the clas- sical myth of Daphnis and Chloe. The Surrealist poets and painters Joan Miró met in Paris in the 1920s deeply af- fected his visual language of signs. With curvilinear lines and biomorphic shapes, he sought to meld the realm of the unconscious to es- sential life forms, veering to- ward abstraction but always maintaining links to human- ity, nature, and the cosmos. An impression of this edition is exhibited in the perma- nent collection of the Mu- seum of Modern Art in New York. Daphnis and Chloe, 1933 Original Hand Signed and Inscribed Drypoint on Arches vellum paper 50 x 64cm / 19.7 x 25.2 in 6 Miró continued his explora- tion of intaglio techniques at Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 workshop in New York in the 1940s, especially aquatint and lithography. Following his move to Va- rengeville in Normandy (France), the German inva- sion of France and Franco’s control of Spain, Miró con- centrated on symbolism. His works, like this Woman and Bird in Front of the Moon, revealed a shifting focus to the subject of women, birds, and the moon, which would dominate his iconography for much of the rest of his career. As the one on the left, an impression of this edition is exhibited in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Woman and Bird in Front of the Moon, 1947 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Aquatint on Arches paper 21 x 25.5 cm / 8.3 x 10 in 7 Figure with Red Sun I, 1950 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Colours on Arches vellum paper 64 x 50 cm / 25.2 x 19.6 in 8 Bird-Catchers Family, 1955 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in colours on Arches vellum paper 76 x 56.5 cm / 29.9 x 22.2 in 9 The Smile with Flaming Wings, 1954 Hand Signed, Dated and Numbered Lithograph in colours on Arches vellum paper 48.5 x 64.8 cm / 19.1 x 25.5 10 Bird Escaping Towards the Pyramides, 1954 Hand Signed, Dated and Numbered Etching and Aquatint in colours on wove paper 75.1 x 31 cm / 29.6 x 12.2 in 11 The Essences of the Earth, 1968 Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in colours on Japon nacre paper 50 x 35,5 cm / 19.7 x 14 in 12 The Dog Barking at the Moon, 1952 Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in colours 36.5 x 54.5 cm / 14.2 x 21.5 in 13 Untitled, ca 1958 Original Hand Signed and Dedicated Watercolour on paper 19 x 13.8 cm / 7.6 x 5.5 in 14 Provenance: Louis G.Clayeux (a gift from the artist) Galerie Gravure Actuelle, Paris Literature: Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miro Catalogue Raisonne, The Drawings 1938-1959, Paris, 2010 vol II, no. 1582 Louis Gabriel Clayeux was a French dealer and critic. From 1948 to 1965, he was the director and curator at the Galerie Maeght in Paris. He was a very close friend as well as Giacometti’s first patron. Very close to the late French President Francois Mitterand, he was the one to suggest the concept of Le Grand Louvre. Drawings are key for an artist. They are proofs of artistic reflection and concerns. For any collector, it will be a way to achieve a better understanding of the artist’s creative process, his methodical way of working, and his tastes. Created in a very playful way, as always in Miró’s oeuvre, this drawing is made with watercolour. This medium would allow the artist to be very free and create very instinctive marks with the colour and the water. The com- position is beautifully balanced with a character flying in the middle of the paper like a kite. The nose and the eyes are simplified to the extreme and the mix of colours gives this drawing a very contemporary look. 15 The Land of Great Fire, 1960 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in colours on Arches vellum paper 48 x 65 cm / 18.8 x 25.5 in 16 The Red Entertainer, 1969 Original Hand Signed and Inscribed Lithograph in colours on BFK Rives paper 84.4 x 60.2 cm / 33.2 x 23.7 in 17 The following works are great examples of abstraction in Miró’s oeuvre. All realised in the 1960’s, they show how Miró was greatly influenced by American Abstract Expressionism, the artistic movement that was founded in New York in the 1950’s. In Miró’s lithographs and etchings from that period, we can notice clear references to American artists, such as Jackson Pollock, known for his famous “dripping paintings”. Pollock was also influ- enced by Miró and Surrealism. Surrealist artists thought that true art comes from a part of the mind called the unconscious. The unconscious controls the area of the mind that produces dreams. This statement is a crucial point in understanding the art of the Catalan Master. Miró revisited abstraction using his own language of symbols to reflect his personal vision, sense of freedom, and energy in the Arts. He expressed himself as a Surrealist through poetry, with no obligation of showing rec- ognisable objects. “As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic ag- gressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.” Joan Miró 18 The Water Carrier IV, 1962 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Aquatint in colours on Rives paper 56 x 75.3 cm / 22 x 29.6 in 19 This lithograph is a celebration of Miró’s collaborations with the ceramicist Jospe Llorens Artigas. The title prob- ably refers to the action of the fire on the clay in Artigas’ Japanese wood-fired ceramics. Fire Dance, 1963 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in colours on BFK Rives paper 47.2 x 65.5 cm / 18.5 x 25.7 in 20 “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness” Joan Miró Seabed II, 1963 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Aquatint in colours on BFK Rives paper 76.2 x 56.3 cm / 30 x 22.1 in 21 Bird of Fire, 1963 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Aquatint in colours on BFK Rives paper 75 x 105 cm / 29.5 x 41.3 in 22 Traces on the water, 1963 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Aquatint in colours on Rives paper 32 x 74 cm / 12.5 x 29 in 23 Joan Miró used Ubu Roi as a subject of his most famous series made of 50 1940 lithographs known as “the Bar- celona Series”. These pictures could be Ubu Roi but they also satirise General Franco and his generals after he had won the Spanish Civil War. He revisited this subject many times in in oeuvre. For example, in 1976 he collaborated with the theatre com- pany La Claca to produce the show Mori el Merma (“Death to the Bogeyman”) – a recreation of Ubu’s Roi. Ubu’s Childhood / L’Enfance d’Ubu, 1975 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in colours on Arches paper 32.1 x 50.5 cm / 12.6 x 19.8 in 24 Ma de Proverbis, 1970 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in colours on Arches vellum paper 55 x 77 cm / 21.6 x 30.1 in 25 The Tempest - indigo, 1969 Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in indigo on BFK Rives vellum paper 85 x 60,5cm / 33.4 x 23.8 in 26 Among Miró’s notes of the 1960’s there was a clipping from a local newspaper showing a single sen- tence by Victor Hugo “L’art c’est l’azur” literally “Art is Blue”.
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